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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    On monday i was working on the late shift, and seeing as my local bus service to santry is crap, i as usual headed to the station to get the DART. Everything was fine, felt like a normal day. Got off the DART at Connelly station and went to head for the bus station to get the airport express. Outside the Train station there are Outdoor escelators with a plastic cover over it to keep it dry from the rain. Yeah right! Stepped onto it and slipped down a step. I managed to grab the rail before fell on my arse, but still managed to wallop my right arm and leg. Lets just say i was completely mortified, quickly hopped up and got off as soon as i could. Got to the bus station and managed to get on a Airlink bus before it pulled off. Everything fine. Get to Airport and i stood up to make my way to the stairs to get to the lower deck of the bust to get off, bus jerks sideways, i fall into a seat area and bang my right leg (again) of the seat.
    Lets just say i'm still nursing a sore arm, and a stiff leg that keeps cramping.
    D: Owwwwww! I'm sorry.

    Well, it wasn't too weird, but I was just walking to the library a few minutes ago and the wind was blowing and it was making my jacket swoosh so I pretended to be a superhero and my English teacher was right behind me and said, "Don't fly away!" And I said, "Maybe I want to!" and then he said, "How about those darned socks of yours?" Because earlier in English he was talking about the correct word for mending socks is to darn them. He thought I knew what it was because I sew but I never heard that before...

    Anyways, I just loved that pun he said.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily Adams View Post


    Well, it wasn't too weird, but I was just walking to the library a few minutes ago and the wind was blowing and it was making my jacket swoosh so I pretended to be a superhero and my English teacher was right behind me and said, "Don't fly away!" And I said, "Maybe I want to!" and then he said, "How about those darned socks of yours?" Because earlier in English he was talking about the correct word for mending socks is to darn them. He thought I knew what it was because I sew but I never heard that before...

    Anyways, I just loved that pun he said.
    I tried to teach puns to my 10th graders. Most of them didn't understand.

    Yesterday I saw a pick-up truck parked in the casino garage loaded with furniture. Maybe they thought the casino with take it in exchange for chips?
    Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
    Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shea View Post
    I tried to teach puns to my 10th graders. Most of them didn't understand.

    Yesterday I saw a pick-up truck parked in the casino garage loaded with furniture. Maybe they thought the casino with take it in exchange for chips?
    I love puns...tell me a pun and I'll like you.

    Ha ha...


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    my best friend was just asking me where the guy i'm eyeing was, and i asnwered. immediately my male best friend (to whom i wouldn't tell the identity of my crush) says, "amanda, i think i know!!!" "what?" "is he.. a teacher?" "no..." "umm-hmmm..." "no." "you're hiding something." "yeah i am, but not that."

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    Funny things happened while out for drinks for birthday, Tell you all tomorrow when more sober...
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Funny things happened while out for drinks for birthday, Tell you all tomorrow when more sober...

    Drunk posters are the best. Come on tell us now!!!!!
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Funny things happened while out for drinks for birthday, Tell you all tomorrow when more sober...
    yes yes, do tell now. we can all laugh and then you can edit it later
    "...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily Adams View Post
    I love puns...tell me a pun and I'll like you.

    Ha ha...
    The butcher accidentally backed up into his meat grinder. It caused him to get a little behind in his work.
    Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
    Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shea View Post
    The butcher accidentally backed up into his meat grinder. It caused him to get a little behind in his work.
    Ewwwww!!!! XD


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    thats actually funny!

    Okay. So i went out for a few drinks last night for my birthday. There was only four of us, but we had a good laugh. One of the new supervisors from work popped in for a few drinks and we all got chatting. my friend from work is a very intellegent you person but unfortunately some schools in Ireland dont make history and geography compulsory. We wer asking the new superviser from work about his girlfriend who is french canadian. My friend went to ask something then stopped herself and went to whisper it to her friend instead. Myself and the french superviser managed to hear what she said.
    "Because she's french canadian, does that mean that france is beside canada?"
    Well, we all pissed ourselves laughing. She is very funny and started laughing herself when we explained to her that canada was a french colony at one point hence french canadian. She took it all with a grain of salt. Shes great like that. Thats why we all love her.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Okay. So i went out for a few drinks last night for my birthday. There was only four of us, but we had a good laugh. One of the new supervisors from work popped in for a few drinks and we all got chatting. my friend from work is a very intellegent you person but unfortunately some schools in Ireland dont make history and geography compulsory. We wer asking the new superviser from work about his girlfriend who is french canadian. My friend went to ask something then stopped herself and went to whisper it to her friend instead. Myself and the french superviser managed to hear what she said.
    "Because she's french canadian, does that mean that france is beside canada?"
    Well, we all pissed ourselves laughing. She is very funny and started laughing herself when we explained to her that canada was a french colony at one point hence french canadian. She took it all with a grain of salt. Shes great like that. Thats why we all love her.

    That reminds me of the time my mom's supervisor once asked if they speak English in England.
    Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
    Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shea View Post
    That reminds me of the time my mom's supervisor once asked if they speak English in England.
    Someone i know told me an american girls once said to her "I speak american not English."
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Someone i know told me an american girls once said to her "I speak american not English."
    Americans say that all the time, at least all the ones I'm familiar with. I never really understood it. Of course the way we spell certain things (color = colour) and say certain things is different, but the language is still the same.
    com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity

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    I think it had been during a discussion about languages and the Irish girl said, "Sure we speak english in Ireland same way you speak English in america." And that was the girls reply.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    I think it had been during a discussion about languages and the Irish girl said, "Sure we speak english in Ireland same way you speak English in america." And that was the girls reply.
    Oh, I see. Still, I don't think I would have been surprised.
    com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity

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